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The new estimates of the conditional Shannon entropy are introduced in the framework of the model describing a discrete response variable depending on a vector of d factors having a density w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure in R^d. Namely, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Alexander Bulinski , Alexey Kozhevin

Configurational entropy, or complexity, plays a critical role in characterizing disordered systems such as glasses, yet its measurement often requires significant computational resources. Recently, R\'enyi entropy, a one-parameter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-27 Nina Javerzat , Eric Bertin , Misaki Ozawa

The increased uncertainty and complexity of nonlinear systems have motivated investigators to consider generalized approaches to defining an entropy function. New insights are achieved by defining the average uncertainty in the probability…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Kenric P. Nelson , Sabir Umarov , Mark A. Kon

Algorithmic entropy and Shannon entropy are two conceptually different information measures, as the former is based on size of programs and the later in probability distributions. However, it is known that, for any recursive probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Andreia Teixeira , Andre Souto , Armando Matos , Luis Antunes

Entropy has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and widely accepted quantitative measure of uncertainty across different disciplines. A unified understanding of entropy measures, supported by a detailed review of their theoretical…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Naveen Kumar , Ambesh Dixit , Vivek Vijay

Gauss' law of error is generalized in Tsallis statistics such as multifractal systems, in which Tsallis entropy plays an essential role instead of Shannon entropy. For the generalization, we apply the new multiplication operation determined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroki Suyari , Makoto Tsukada

We have presented a new axiomatic derivation of Shannon Entropy for a discrete probability distribution on the basis of the postulates of additivity and concavity of the entropy function.We have then modified shannon entropy to take account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Chakrabarti , Indranil Chakrabarty

Product probability property, known in the literature as statistical independence, is examined first. Then generalized entropies are introduced, all of which give generalizations to Shannon entropy. It is shown that the nature of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 A. M. Mathai , H. J. Haubold

The ultimate purpose of the statistical analysis of ordinal patterns is to characterize the distribution of the features they induce. In particular, knowing the joint distribution of the pair Entropy-Statistical Complexity for a large class…

The Tsallis entropy given for a positive parameter $\alpha$ can be considered as a modification of the classical Shannon entropy. For the latter, corresponding to $\alpha=1$, there exist many axiomatic characterizations. One of them based…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Sonja Jäckle , Karsten Keller

An analytical expression of probability density function (PDF) of velocity fluctuation is derived with the help of the statistics based on generalized entropy (the Tsallis entropy or the R\'{e}nyi entropy). It is revealed that the derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Arimitsu , T. Arimitsu

Shannon entropy for discrete distributions is a fundamental and widely used concept, but its continuous analogue, known as differential entropy, lacks essential properties such as positivity and compatibility with the discrete case. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yuliya Mishura , Kostiantyn Ralchenko

The class of SPA entropies, which can be represented as an increasing continuous transformation of Shannon and R\'enyi entropies, have intensively been studied in previous decades. Although their mathematical structure has thoroughly been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Velimir M. Ilic , Antonio Maria Scarfone , Tatsuaki Wada

A comparative study of one-dimensional quantum structures which allow analytic expressions for the position and momentum R\'{e}nyi $R(\alpha)$ and Tsallis $T(\alpha)$ entropies, focuses on extracting the most characteristic physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 O. Olendski

We consider the entropy of sums of independent discrete random variables, in analogy with Shannon's Entropy Power Inequality, where equality holds for normals. In our case, infinite divisibility suggests that equality should hold for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-21 Oliver Johnson , Yaming Yu

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

Number-phase uncertainty relations are formulated in terms of unified entropies which form a family of two-parametric extensions of the Shannon entropy. For two generalized measurements, unified-entropy uncertainty relations are given in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Alexey E. Rastegin

In this article, we discuss the problem of establishing relations between information measures assessed for network structures. Two types of entropy based measures namely, the Shannon entropy and its generalization, the R\'{e}nyi entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-24 Lavanya Sivakumar , Matthias Dehmer

More and more works deal with statistical systems far from equilibrium, dominated by unidirectional stochastic processes augmented by rare resets. We analyze the construction of the entropic distance measure appropriate for such dynamics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-08 Tamás S. Biró , András Telcs , Zoltán Néda

The Tsallis and R\'enyi entropies are important quantities in the information theory, statistics and related fields because the Tsallis entropy is an one parameter generalization of the Shannon entropy and the R\'enyi entropy includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Yusuke Ide , Norio Konno , Junji Shikata